Standing Man

Description This wooden and probably originally painted statuette depicts a standing man with the left leg in advance. Wood was a popular material for Old Kingdom private sculpture. This statuette would have been placed in the "serdab," or statue chamber, of the owner's tomb.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Examination	examined for condition
12/31/1969	Examination	survey
10/07/1998	Treatment	cleaned; re-housed
10/07/1998	Treatment	other

Provenance Said Bey Khashaba, Cairo Museum [date of acquisition unknown], by excavation; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924